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Three Dimensions of Thinking about Mass Culture of Susan Sontag

Author: XiZuo
Tutor: ZuoCongJu
School: Shandong University
Course: Comparative Literature and World Literature
Keywords: Susan Sontag Popular culture Aesthetic Political Moral
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract


Susan Sontag's popular culture not only a clear account of their inner thinking and being touched on many of the key issues in the study of popular culture. Overall, she Popular Culture and experienced changes in three dimensions: the 1960s, she was subversive of popular culture from the aesthetic point of view a strong defense; late 1960s to the mid-1970s, an active part in political activities She found the Ideology of Mass Culture control function; After the mid-1970s, she would focus turned to the moral and denounced the popular culture of consumerism at this time fully occupied, that it contributed to the kind of irresponsible frivolity moral concept. Sontag of Popular Culture, always starting from the stand to defend the rights of the marginalized. Changes in her view, in fact, also reveals the contradictions of popular culture: to dwell on the \This rational attitude is perhaps such Sontag-like moments remain vigilant. In the been Sontag research, is to be thought of as part of the literary theory of popular culture, and did not separate determination of thought popular culture connotation, development context, and its reasons for the changes. Therefore, the purpose of this topic is to sort out and analyze the evolution of the concept of Sontag popular culture, trying to fill gaps in the field of domestic. Research methods, mainly using text analysis method of combining peruse and biography. Sontag expressed at different stages of life, popular culture, all with their own experience in this stage of life are closely linked. Thus, a combination of text and biography, helps to clearly present the context of the evolution of Sontag popular culture thought. The topic of innovation is showing through the combing and analysis of the Sontag mass culture and thought, thinking of the following questions: How to be a rational or intellectual attitude towards popular culture. \, especially with the commercialization of natural alliance, but also so that it can easily be exploited to induce, and ultimately to the opposite of \Therefore, simple criticism of popular culture is anti-intellectual, possible loss of arbitrary; blindly believe it is a symbol of democratization can not help but be overly optimistic. This topic shows two \\The other is a real anti-intellectual, that refused to Renhe Zhi participation contented addicted to the surface of the carnival. How to distinguish between the two \Now, everyone can not stop the rushing of popular culture, therefore, is not how to fight it or turn a blind eye, but how to treat it with an attitude of intellectual the grassroots discourse and entertainment demands. Sontag always seriously popular culture, so she did not get lost. In this era of mass culture, we must be vigilant, it is also all kinds of lost.

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